Pricing Tools: What Changes About Your Week
It’s Sunday night. You’re staring at a spreadsheet, trying to figure out the cost of that 3-tier wedding cake someone inquired about. You’re guessing at fondant cost, hoping your buttercream estimate is close. You know you’re probably undercharging, but you can’t afford to spend hours on a single quote. Or maybe it’s 8 AM on a Saturday, and a walk-in wants a dozen custom cupcakes. You pull out your phone, hands sticky with ganache, and try to remember your pricing sheet. You throw out a number, hoping it covers your costs and leaves a bit of profit. You’re not really sure. With BakeOnyx’s pricing tools, those moments vanish. You’ll know the exact cost of that 3-tier cake in 60 seconds, right from your iPad. You can price those walk-in cupcakes on the spot, with confidence, knowing every gram of flour and every splash of vanilla is accounted for.
How It Works
Enter Your Base Recipe
You open the recipe page for your signature chocolate cake. You type in '500g all-purpose flour' and select your supplier's price of $1.80/kg. BakeOnyx instantly shows you that ingredient cost is $0.90. You continue adding eggs, sugar, cocoa powder, and your custom blend of spices, linking each to your supplier prices.
Define Ingredient Yields
For your butter, you enter '1kg block' and assign it a supplier price of $6.50. BakeOnyx prompts you: 'How many grams of butter are in one standard batch of buttercream?' You type '500g'. The software calculates that one batch of buttercream uses $3.25 worth of butter.
Calculate Batch Costs
You finish adding all ingredients for your cake batter and buttercream. BakeOnyx shows you the total ingredient cost for the entire batch. If your cake batter batch yields 4000g and costs $15.50, the per-gram cost is $0.003875.
Portion and Price Your Products
Now, you define your products. You create a '5-inch Chocolate Cake' and enter '450g' for its weight. BakeOnyx automatically calculates the ingredient cost at $1.74. You add your labor and overhead percentage, and set your desired profit margin. The software suggests a selling price of $12.50, giving you a $7.76 profit.
Scale Recipes and Costs Instantly
A customer wants your chocolate cake as a 9-inch size. You select '9-inch Chocolate Cake' and enter '950g'. The ingredient cost updates to $3.68. If they want a sheet cake using the same batter, you can scale the original recipe to yield 10kg and see the total cost for that larger production run in seconds.
Update Ingredient Prices and See Everything Change
Your supplier just increased the price of chocolate by 10%. You go to your supplier management screen, update the price for chocolate from $5.00/kg to $5.50/kg. Instantly, every recipe, every product, and every quote that uses chocolate recalculates its cost and suggested selling price. That 3-tier wedding cake quote you sent yesterday? You can now send an updated one reflecting the true cost.
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Benefits
Know your true profit on every item
You'll stop wondering if that $35 custom cake order actually made you money. You’ll see exactly how much profit you pocket after ingredients, labor, and overhead for every single item on your menu.
Identify and reprice 3 undercharged recipes within your first week.
Price rush orders on the fly
A bride calls Friday afternoon needing a last-minute cake for Sunday. You can give her an accurate quote, including delivery, in less than 2 minutes while she’s on the phone, without fumbling for a calculator or guessing.
Quote a custom 2-tier cake in 45 seconds instead of 15 minutes.
Eliminate spreadsheet Sunday nights
Instead of spending hours on Sunday trying to figure out costs for the week’s orders, you'll have them ready. Your Monday morning starts with production lists, not endless calculations.
Save an average of 3 hours every Sunday night.
Make smarter purchasing decisions
You’ll see which recipes are your biggest profit drivers and which ones are costing you more than they bring in. This helps you decide where to focus your baking efforts and marketing.
Identify your top 5 most profitable products based on actual cost and selling price.
Get paid for every gram of ingredient
You’ll be confident that you’re charging appropriately for every single component, from the flour in your sourdough to the fancy sprinkles on a birthday cake. No more giving away expensive ingredients for free.
Ensure ingredient costs are accounted for to within $0.01 per recipe.
Impress customers with professional quotes
Provide detailed, accurate quotes that show your professionalism. Customers will trust your pricing when it’s clearly based on precise calculations, not guesswork.
Generate a PDF quote for a 50-person wedding cake order in under 90 seconds.
Related Features
Recipe Costing
Build your entire menu with accurate ingredient costs that feed directly into your pricing.
Inventory Tracking
See how ingredient price changes impact your product costs automatically, ensuring your pricing stays current.
Order Management
Convert accurate quotes generated by the pricing tools directly into confirmed orders.
Batch Costing
Understand the exact cost of producing ingredients in bulk, which forms the foundation of your product pricing.
AI Assistant
Ask your AI assistant to 'What's the cost of a dozen croissants?' and get an immediate answer based on your pricing data.
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